OVERVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS IN LITHUANIA Legislative and institutional settings Aušra Jablonskienė Head of Agriculture and Environment Statistics Division
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK Statistics Lithuania is responsible for collection of all the statistical information on agriculture and its responsibilities are laid down in the Law of National Statistics. Regulation No223/2009 of the European Council on the Community Statistics Data are collected by conducting complete enumeration and applying sample methods. The prepared information is used by state, municipal and scientific institutions to shape agricultural policies, providing aid to agricultural producers in line with the EU principles
LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRICULTURE STATISTICS national legal acts Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania Law on Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Lithuania Work Programme of Official Statistics Order of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania on the approval of a questionnaire questionnair of each survey must be approved.
LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRICULTURE STATISTICS legal acts of the European Union Council Regulations, Commission Regulations, Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Decisions on the: crop products statistics; livestock, meat and eggs statistics; milk and dairy products statistics; Farm Structure Surveys in 2010 (on the Agricultural Census), 2013, 2016; land use and cover statistics; agricultural accounts and prices; agri-environmental statistics
LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRICULTURE STATISTICS Agreements Gentlemen's Agreements on the: current statistics on fruit and vegetables; crop production supply balance sheets; early estimates on Crop Production; EU agricultural price indices Agreements on the: supply balance sheets of meat; supply balance sheets of milk; figures on poultry meat production;
Statistics Lithuania Crop area, harvest and average yields. Crop production supply balance sheets. DIVISION OF LABOUR Crop products statistics The Ministry of Agriculture Early estimates on Crop Production Agricultural and non-agricultural ethanol statistics Wine statistics Olive and other oil statistics Agricultural seeds statistics Compound feed statistics Sugar statistics (reserves, production, realization, purchase, sugar balance sheet) Organic farming
DIVISION OF LABOUR Livestock, meat and eggs statistics Statistics Lithuania Number of livestock and poultry Livestock production, productivity Livestock and poultry slaughter Supply balance sheets of livestock products Structure and use of poultry hatcheries Number of chicks and foreign trade The Ministry of Agriculture Slaughter forecast Raw milk statistics (purchase, sale, production of milk products, prices, etc.) Poultry slaughter, reserves of poultry meat and eggs Production of livestock meat and meat products, trade, reserves, prices. Amount of animals products for non human use Organic farming
CALCULATION OF THE SUPPLY BALANCE SHEET Statistics Lithuania is responsible for calculation of the supply balance sheet which comprise: Cereals, legumes, potatoes, rice, fruit, vegetables; Sugar beat, treacle, honey; Olives, oil plant seeds, vegetable oil, oil cakes, grape wine; Total meat: beef and veal meat, pig meat, sheep and goat meat, poultry meat, rabbit meat, variety meat and fat; Milk and dairy products; Eggs and egg products; Animal and vegetable fats.
FARM STRUCTURE SURVEYS AND AGRICULTURAL CENSUSES Statistics Lithuania is responsible for Farm Structure Surveys and Agricultural Census: Farm Structure Survey before 2010 every two years after 2010 every three years Agricultural Censuses every ten years.
Statistics Lithuania Calculations on agriculture output, intermediate consumption, added value, production volume indices Estimation of the results of Agricultural activity (first and second estimations) Statistics Lithuania provides data on EAA to Eurostat. Statistics Lithuania is responsible for the compilation of the Agricultural Income Index DIVISION OF LABOUR Economic Accounts for Agriculture The Ministry of Agriculture The final figures for the EAA are produced (in Sept y t+1 ) by the Agrarian Institute of Economics (part of the Ministry of Agriculture) and they are submitted to Statistics Lithuania The Agrarian Institute of Economics is also responsible for calculation Unit values for agricultural products, EAA in prices n-1, and in prices 2000
DIVISION OF LABOUR Purchases of agricultural products Statistics Lithuania prices indices of goods purchased for production agricultural products purchase of agricultural products (livestock and poultry, flax, seeds of essential oil plants, honey), average prices and its indices agricultural Price Indices (API) which comprise: the index of producer prices of agricultural products the index of purchase prices of means of agricultural production basic biological asset formation in agriculture The Ministry of Agriculture purchase of potatoes, fruit, berries, vegetables, mushrooms (amount and prices) Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) production and financial indicators of agricultural companies and enterprises agricultural land prices and rents prices of agro technical services
DIVISION OF LABOUR Agri-environmental statistics Statistics Lithuania statistics on pesticides amount of pesticides placed on market (by active substances and chemical classes) use of pesticides in agriculture (by crops) statistics on waste in agriculture, forestry and fishery The Ministry of Agriculture amount of plant protection products from non European Union member states production, trade and prices of mineral fertilizers
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SURVEY Frequency Surveys Private farms and households Agricultural companies and enterprises 2003 (2010) Agricultural Census Complete survey Complete survey Every 2 (3) years Farm Structure Survey Sample survey Complete survey Yearly Crop area, harvest and average yields Sample survey Complete survey Yearly, Quarterly Number of livestock and poultry, production and productivity Sample survey Complete survey Complete survey Yearly Purchase of crop and animal production, average purchase prices for agricultural production Complete survey Complete survey Quarterly Input price statistics survey Sample survey Quarterly Results of economical-financial activity in agricultural companies and enterprises Quarterly Results of economical-financial activity in enterprises providing agricultural services for agriculture Complete survey Complete survey
SURVEYS INVOLVING FARMERS AND FAMILY FARMS Crop statistics survey Sample size about 7000 farmers and family farms Livestock statistics survey Sample size about 7000 farmers and family farms Farm Structure Survey Sample size about 50 000 farmers and family farms Agricultural Census Complete survey all farmers and family farms
USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA SOURCES Administrative data are used for various calculations The Ministry of Agriculture provides data from: the Cadastre Register Agricultural and Rural Business Register (Register of Agricultural Holdings) Livestock Register Crop Register for subsidies Economic Indicators on the Activities of agricultural partnerships and enterprises. Organic farming register The Institute of Agrarian Economics is responsible for the FADN data collection Register of Population Register of Addresses
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